The power of the mind, huh?

OK, so we can add "hangovers" to my list of migraine triggers - I woke up Sunday with a bad headache which got mostly chased away with Advil, which came back a couple of hours later, got partially chased away by Advil, and then came back with friends this morning.

I get to work and go upstairs to the coffee bar to get a granola bar and a Coke (sugar to spike the blood sugar up ASAP, along with caffeine), and stomp back to my cube downstairs grumbling at life in general because my head hurt so bad (metaphorically - real stomping would have hurt). I dig through my bag for the migraine drugs, and as I pull them out of the bag ... the headache vanishes. It's gone. And I hadn't cracked the Coke or the granola bar open yet. Weird.

Currently my head has started slightly aching again and I expect that it'll probably come back over the day, but I can certainly catch it before it gets as bad as it was this morning, if I think it's going to head that way, but ... that was just weird. I'm happy for it - if I can chase away the occasional migraine merely by looking for the drugs, then I am A-OK with that - but I am left pondering psychology and how it affects the body. And if my brain associates the mere presence of the drugs with relief from pain, then SO BE IT. I can totally live with that.

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Ah, too good to last. The headache's back with reinforcements. *burrows in bag for drugs*

Open question...

Over on homemade_manga, scorpio1987 is asking the question What makes a manga instantly popular?.

We know that "instant" success really isn't that - it's the product of a lot of preparation and work - but there's interesting thoughts in there about what makes a particular manga more popular than another, and why something takes the public by storm. Thoughts, musings, arguments on the subject, anyone?



I'll go pimp this on manga_talk once there's gotten to be some actual discussion, but for now I'm going to lunch. Ta.

ConDFW news again

Nothing really news news, except that we're now seriously considering a science track, and are looking for suggestions for a few local scientists or official-type people who'd be willing to come talk about their research or what's spiffy in their science field right now or something similar in exchange for a badge. :)

Suggestions on what to offer in this track besides generic panels/lectures welcome. A couple of years ago we talked about having a panel on spiffy experiments and doing several of them, such as a homemade cloud chamber, but didn't have anyone enthusiastic enough to plan and organize it at the time.